Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Alderman Patrick Daley Thompson, Alderman Danny Solis and Chicago Park District General Superintendent Michael P. Kelly joined members of the Bridgeport community to break ground on Eleanor boat house, the fourth boat house to be built in the city under the Mayor’s tenure. Eleanor boat house will be a rowing training and boat storage facility that will consist of two buildings. The Park District will offer programming at the facility, which will also be open to the public. The area’s rowing community consists of five separate groups: Recovery on Water (ROW), which serves cancer patients and survivors; St. Ignatius College Prep’s rowing group; the intramural team at the University of Chicago; the Chicago Training Center (CTC), which provides rowing opportunities to underserved youth; and Lincoln Park Boat Club (LPBC), a private organization rowing out of multiple city locations. The construction of this south side boat house will cost approximately $8.5 million, consisting of $8.2 million in Park District funding and a $259,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Chi-Cal Fund. The boat house, which will be designed by Studio Gang Architects, is projected to be complete in the fall of 2016. For more information, visit www.chicagoparkdistrict.com or call 312-742-PLAY.